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New PowerMac Photos?

Skiniftz said:
Because you are looking at a picture of a single CPU system which has a maximum RAM capacity of 4Gb. (Actually it's 8Gb as it will take 2Gb DIMMS but nobody is supposed to know that).
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Exactly, there will be a greater hardware difference between the singles and the dualies.. where now the models have the same mobo, but they are missing some sockets, but besides that, they are the same.. and also equally pricey 🙂

so according to this pictures, this is going to change..
 
Bonte said:
That is one large heat sink, me thinks there is room for 4 more RAM slots in there. Left is room for the 2e proc or ... The 2e dual proc 🙂
here's hoping 🙂 🙂
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I may be wrong, but from what I can tell those pictures show 8 RAM slots. If you notice they start out at the very bottom of the board and go ALL the way up to the division of the case. In fact we're missing some of that because of the angle of the image. RAM is not that long, right? I would say the slots are four and four vertically aligned top to bottom. As soon as the attachments link works I'll post an image of what I mean...

Does anyone have a G5 that could measure the height of that bottom part of the case and the length of their RAM?

BTW, the smaller square MB coincides with an old rumor by Croquer (the french site) of smaller (24cmx25cm) boards. Just an interesting coincidence.
 
Here is the image I was trying to post:
 

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hmmm...

I don't think it's wise to show an image that Apple wanted "removed" again on this page.

Anyways, I loved the G6 picture. That was so funny, hahaha...the 5 button mouse... 😀 good job 😉
 
keysersoze said:
Hmm... I don't know about that. Here's a new "artist's rendition" from Appleinsider...could be total bunk, but check this out:

http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=477

I only see 4 slots, like the old one. I wish I knew someone who would let me see the guts of their "old" 🙂 G5...
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It will be interesting to see how long Apple Legal takes to have it removed as well 🙂 . I definitely think that new PMs are around the corner because Apple wouldn't have bothered about the original pics if nothing was coming. If those pictures are real or not is not important, even it they're not, Apple might want to heat up expectations.
 
... whatever .. it's just time for apple to get out something new and fast .. and do it fast ... very fast ...
@ cinebench the fastest mac slipped from nr. 17 down to nr. 22 just recently ...
have a look http://www.imashination.com/bench.html
...
and since almost 10 months there is this beta cinebench-version ... time for an update, too ?

"CINEBENCH 2003 G5 is a technology study. MAXON has optimized crucial parts of the render engine for the G5 with the support of Apple, which now reaches speed increases of approximately 20%. Further improvements are expected once an optimized compiler with G5 support is available, which shall produce efficient and reliable G5 code.
We will release updates of CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D as soon the final compilers and tools are available that allow us to produce accelerated, G5-optimized production-quality versions of our programs."

that was 2003 ... what about 2004? anybody knows?
hope for some speedup @ wwdc ...
.a
 
32bit Intel with 64 Gigs of RAM

slughead said:
BTW someone said that intel can't have more than 4.x GB ram in their mobos, which is untrue. Intel's mobos use some weird RAM emulation thing where they have 42bit addressing (someone do the math).. anyways I'm pretty sure that means intel's mobos (even on 32bit processors) can go higher than 8GB (which is apple's artificial max).
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Actually Intel does have a way of addressing up to 64Gigs of RAM on a 32bit CPU, it's called Appendix H and how it worked was a closely held secret at Intel. It's been around since the Pentium Pro days, but you need a special operating system to access all that extra RAM(A pricey version of Windows or a recompiled Linux kernel), it has a few limitations.
 
stylewriter said:
Actually Intel does have a way of addressing up to 64Gigs of RAM on a 32bit CPU, it's called Appendix H and how it worked was a closely held secret at Intel. It's been around since the Pentium Pro days, but you need a special operating system to access all that extra RAM(A pricey version of Windows or a recompiled Linux kernel), it has a few limitations.
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I have always been under the impression that the amount of RAM a computer can access is more a function of the OS than simply the MB/Processor. However, I don't pretend to be an expert on such matters.

I followed the link you provided and read the article. I am not sure how it explain anything about addressing 64GB of RAM on a 32 bit CPU.
 
Lancetx said:
Yep. Thanks Apple Legal, you just confirmed that what we saw on AppleInsider was indeed real. 🙂
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Now that I think about it . . . did anyone expect a different case for the next revision? I would think most of us expected the case to be exactly the same and the use of a slightly small motherboard (to save on manufacturing costs) and a slightly different heatsink (different chip) should be seen as no big deal.

What's actually interesting is speed/price/optical drive/video card. Somebody wake me up when we have solid rumors about those.
 
smaller G5

Someone mentioned surprise that there was not a new case design.
Maybe we have been looking at the pictures in the wrong proportion.

Smaller chip, smaller mother board= smaller case.

I don't know just a thought.
 

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jmustretch said:
Someone mentioned surprise that there was not a new case design.
Maybe we have been looking at the pictures in the wrong proportion.

Smaller chip, smaller mother board= smaller case.

I don't know just a thought.
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Interesting idea but no. Disc drives etc dont shrink without becoming more expensive, and then there are those ram slots....
 
jmustretch said:
Someone mentioned surprise that there was not a new case design.
Maybe we have been looking at the pictures in the wrong proportion.

Smaller chip, smaller mother board= smaller case.

I don't know just a thought.
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The silicon chips are "smaller" but the package is the same size.

You can put a small Harley motorcycle engine in a Ford Exploder, but it ain't going to automatically shrink the rest of the package.
 
jmustretch said:
Someone mentioned surprise that there was not a new case design.
Maybe we have been looking at the pictures in the wrong proportion.

Smaller chip, smaller mother board= smaller case.

I don't know just a thought.
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While that would be a great and wonderful surprise I highly doubt it. It's not cheap to retool everything on a computer. The case, MB, powersupply, case cover, plexi cover, HD bracket, fans... way too costly when the current case is perfect... albeit huge.

BTW, our friendly neighborhood French site Croquer says new G5's Monday or Tuesday. Not really convinced on that one, unless they use WWDC to unveil some other really cool stuff like iMac or PBook G5.
 
can't wait

Can't wait… My boss is waiting for the updates before buying a few more for the office… i'm next in line. Hopefully they will ship soon after (not months) they are announced.

Excitement.

G5 iMac at WWDC… new design, easier and cheaper to produce.

Maybe?
 
macmall.com has a 1GB G5 Promotion that ends June 6. Macmall.com's promotions have always been a good indicator of imminent releases for me.
 
If croquer and macned.nl (also claim this week as update week from 'several' sources) would be true (which I doubt), than did you guys think of the fact that the display promotion is still valid?

The promotion says you can use it with every G5 model available during the period, so thats until 26th of june.. If they announce G5's before 26th, I may have a hard time deciding to either buy a 23" or wait until the new display's arrive, but then again, WHEN will they arrive... and at what cost?

so many questions 🙂
 
jakemikey said:
You gotta love all the posts still acting like it's the real deal even after the numerous posts debunking it.


Anyway...



A real G5 can handle 1.25TB+ without any additional cooling. Take a look at this: http://barefeats.com/swift.html

Take note of his use of ThermographX to evaluate the temp with the drives installed.
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you can even do better, get the swift & the G5Jam from wiebetech -> 7drive capacity insde the G5, and then add 7 Hitachi 400GB SATA drives in it... 2,8GB in your G5 🙂 not that I need it in mine, but some people might enjoy it...
 
Zaty said:
It will be interesting to see how long Apple Legal takes to have it removed as well 🙂 . I definitely think that new PMs are around the corner because Apple wouldn't have bothered about the original pics if nothing was coming. If those pictures are real or not is not important, even it they're not, Apple might want to heat up expectations.
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IMHO, don't think that Apple has to heat up expectations for the Rev. B G5. All of us have been waiting now for about 6 long months. Excitement isn't a problem.
 
this is not that big of a surprise. it wasn't a matter if apple was going to release new powermacs, it's when apple was going to release them.

I guess the new heat block is sorta cool news. Let's see if there are any announcements this tues. If not, then june 28 4 sure!
 
I think that AI is just trying to screw with us. First, they seem to have this unhealthy fixation on where Arn is getting info from, next they "bet" we will start blabbering about it, next they receive the C&D letter from Apple AFTER we mention it on the board. I call this some old fashion griftin' on their part.
 
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